Essays of Love and Virtue

<p>This is a new edition of Essays of Love and Virtue originally published in 1922 by George H. Doran Company of New York. Part of Adeptio's Unforgettable Classic Series this is not a facsimile reprint. Obvious typographical errors have been carefully corrected and the entire text has been reset and redesigned by Adeptio Editions to enhance readability while respecting the original edition.</p><p> </p><p>In Essays of Love and Virtue Havelock Ellis set forth certain fundamental principles together with their practical application to the life of the early twentieth century. Many principles are stated some technically; others were therein implied but only to be read between the lines.</p><p> </p><p>Here the author expressed them in simple language and with some rich detail. The book touches on important topics such as Children and Parents The Meaning of Purity The Objects of Marriage Husbands and Wives The Love-Rights of Women The Play-Function of Sex and The Individual and the Race.</p><p> </p><p>Essays of Love and Virtue is aimed primarily at young people youths and girls at the period of adolescence who were in the author's thoughts in all the studies he wrote of sex because he was of that age when he first vaguely planned them. Little Essays of Love and Virtue is considered one of Havelock's masterpieces and helped establish Havelock's reputation throughout the world. About the Author: Havelock Ellis was a social activist a physician and a psychologist whose best-known works concern sexuality and criminology.</p><p> </p><p>Among his over forty books in 1890 he published The Criminal a remarkable work on criminal anthropology. In the same year he published The New Spirit a collection of literary essays on Diderot Heine Whitman Ibsen and Tolstoy and Ellis's attempt to synthesize science and religious mysticism.</p><p> </p><p>In 1898 he wrote Affirmations which contains essays on Nietzsche Casanova Zola Huysmans and St. Francis. In 1897 he published Sexual Inversion the first medical text in English about homosexuality which he had co-authored with John Addington Symonds in an earlier edition and which became a part of Ellis's six-volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex. In 1922 he published Little Essays of Love and Virtue which aimed primarily at young people youths and girls at the period of adolescence who were in the author's thoughts in all the studies he wrote of sex because he was of that age when he first vaguely planned them.</p><p> </p><p>These titles are part of our Unforgettable Classic Series: The Best of Havelock Ellis Collection. Born in Surrey England in 1859 Havelock Ellis was considered by the overwhelming majority of critics as the best translator of Germinal ��mile Zol��s masterpiece.</p><p> </p><p>Ellis was associated with the Decadent movement and with the Lutetian Society a secret literary society through which authors and translators like himself were able to provide British readers with translations of works which were often antagonistic to the Victorian ideals of morality-such as some of ��mile Zola's controversial novels-aiming at expanding the cultural horizons of the few lucky readers who had access to them. Havelock Ellis died in Suffolk England in 1939.</p>